Robert Frost quotes
Born
March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died
January 29, 1963.
Occupation
Poet.
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.
I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.
– Robert Frost
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
– Robert Frost
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
– Robert Frost
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
– Robert Frost
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
– Robert Frost
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
– Robert Frost
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
– Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
– Robert Frost
Freedom lies in being bold.
– Robert Frost
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
– Robert Frost
What we live by we die by.
– Robert Frost
You can’t get too much winter in the winter.
– Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
– Robert Frost
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
– Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
– Robert Frost
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
– Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
– Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
– Robert Frost
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
– Robert Frost
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
– Robert Frost
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
– Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
– Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
– Robert Frost
The best way out is always through.
– Robert Frost
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
– Robert Frost
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
– Robert Frost
To be social is to be forgiving.
– Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
– Robert Frost
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
– Robert Frost
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
– Robert Frost
Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
– Robert Frost
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
– Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
– Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
– Robert Frost
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
– Robert Frost
I always entertain great hopes.
– Robert Frost
The only certain freedom’s in departure.
– Robert Frost
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
– Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
– Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
– Robert Frost
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
– Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
– Robert Frost
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
– Robert Frost
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
– Robert Frost
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
– Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
– Robert Frost
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
– Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
– Robert Frost